Jane Lawless is at her wit’s end keeping her Minneapolis restaurants running while volon her father’s campaign for governor. With an eleven-point lead, the race is Ray Lawless’s to lose, but all that changes when his rival posts a list of violent criminals back on the streets early thanks to Ray’s work as a defense lawyer. Corey Hodge, one of the convicts who took Ray’s advice to plead guilty for a crime Corey swears he didn’t commit, is bitter from time served and ponders revenge. Then one of Ray’s young campaign volunteers is killed, and with the murder mirroring the crime for which Corey was convicted, Jane has to bring the real killer to justice to save her father’s political career and to keep Corey from going to prison again.